 Cal Ripken is steady, he focuses on his job, and he's a good guy. |
| John Wells let me write a couple of West Wings, which was an incredible gift. I loved it once I got past the brain injury part of it, and so I'm working on a couple of things that are far from fruition, but what I want to pursue. |
| I want to see Bob Dylan do sketch comedy. I'm a huge Bob Dylan fan. |
| Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth. |
| Richard Schiff is a really good baseball player. It's surprising because he looks exhausted. |
| Aaron is a very passionate, maniacal writer so the scripts really come from him, but he is very open to... y'know, we'll plan ideas and we'll certainly tussle about stuff when the script comes out. So, to a certain extent, he's very interested. If there's some problem or something that doesn't ring true, he wants to know why and he wants to correct it or fight for it. |
| We're telling a story. And the demands of that are different from the demands of a documentary. The audience must believe in order to keep faith in the story. |
| This election ain't no stinkin' TV show. |
| I grew up in a family where the internalized understanding was that the kids were going to grow up into a better world. I worry, because I don't think my kids are going to have that. The world is very scary. The world would be scary without the choices the current administration made, but they just exacerbated it. And it ticks me off. I want my kids to have a good life. |
| With the success of a show, you get an opportunity to call attention to things that you believe in. |
| One of the most surreal moments in this election was after the third debate, when I heard a talking head say, Al Gore won on substance, on the issues. But you have to give the victory to Bush because he seems presidential. |
| Having an affair with an intern is just an incredibly stupid thing to do. |
| Whatever you do, make sure you want to write more than you want to be a writer. Make sure you want to act more than you want to be an actor. That is what will sustain you. |
| I heard an Israeli speaking on Palestinian human rights issues, an interesting guy, and he said "There's no military solution to terrorism. If there were, Israel would be the safest place in the world. But there's no military solution." |
| Anybody who can dial a telephone can master tennis scoring in about 15 minutes. |
| You don't want to become one of those Hollywood idiots who is just blathering about anything. |
| You need to be real enough to be believable, but you don't necessarily have to be real enough to be real. There is a distinction. |
| I can't believe George Bush might be president. |
| You don't want your credibility banana to turn brown, but you do want to speak out about what you believe in. |
| The issue for my character, and the issue of the show is, how dirty do your feet have to get without suffocating yourself in the mud in order to get an inch of what you really want done? |
